Revolution Quotes

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution. Barbara Deming
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We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime). Bhagat Singh
Destruction Better Revolution Society State Complete Strife Systematic Must Reconstruction Clear Merely New Implies Make Does Affairs Existing Upheaval After Regime Mean Necessarily Basis Programme Adapted
Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement. Bhagat Singh
Achievement Sometimes Revolution Strife Mere Involve Cult Did Pistol May Means Bomb Necessarily
They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines. Bobby Seale
People Revolution Down Unity Programs Complete Crossed Had Because Real Came Lines Where Racial Us Working Coalition
The revolution of blockchain is not going to happen from outside the system; it's going to happen from within the system. Brad Garlinghouse
Blockchain Revolution System Outside Within Going Happen
My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small. Chiang Kai-shek
Hope Future Great Me Justice Peace People World Political Will Long Revolution Honestly Aim Unless Soldier Neither Small Economic Struggles Facing Economic Justice Facts Forced Nor Any Chinese Social Realize Us Hard Necessity
I was born about 80 years too late. If you were a kid in 1910, the Fourth of July was a big deal. You knew all about the Revolution, and you still had Civil War veterans. Clive Cussler
War You Too Late Veterans Big Revolution Too Late Kid Civil Born About Civil War Had Knew Deal Still Big Deal Were Years July Fourth
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal. Daniel Berrigan
Revolution Promised Insofar Like Heal Interesting Plague
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. David Bohm
Culture Revolution Others Our Those Distortion Would Able Constitute Compulsive Share Self-Deception Freely Suppose Without Real Impose Were Conform Urge Meanings View
You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution. Fred Hampton
You Revolution Revolutionary Jail
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children. Georg Buchner
Revolution Own Like Children Saturn
Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution. George Papandreou
Needs Revolution Own Everyone Out Carry His Personal
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. George Sand
Humanity Revolution Everybody Some No-One Takes Knowing Himself Because Without Makes How Accomplishes Hand Revolutions Quite Which Them Who
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. Germaine Greer
Revolution Oppressed Festival
You see, revolution sounds like something that happens, like turning on the light switch, but actually it's moving a large obstacle, and a lot of folks' efforts to push it in one direction or the other have to combine. Gil Scott-Heron
You Light Revolution Other Folks See Something Direction Push Combine Obstacle Like Sounds Lot Efforts Happens Moving Turning Large Switch Actually
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Democracy You Revolution Must Never Establish Order
Sexuality surrounds us like a dangerous aura. The same reverence that is given to the spirit is not given to the flesh. We have had a sexual revolution, but the sexual revolution only has made sex more pervasive. It hasn't granted the level of reverence and respect that it should have. Gioconda Belli
Respect Dangerous Sex Made Revolution Sexual Sexual Revolution Sexuality Spirit Given More Only Had Like Reverence Aura Surrounds Same Us Should Flesh Granted Pervasive Level
I don't know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough. Grace Lee Boggs
Revolution Rich Imagination Enough Able Like Know Were American Going Might Next American Revolution Your Imagine
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. H. G. Wells
Death You Suffering Made Revolution Nothing Our Danger Worthwhile Abolish Purpose Simply Wrong Suffer
Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions. H. Rap Brown
Revolution Correct Out Institutions Decadent Human Human Beings Beings Set
You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy. Howard Rheingold
Democracy You Revolution Unlocked Press Simply Until Industrial Industrial Revolution Printing Printing Press Govern Literacy Themselves Who
As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers. Ian Hacking
Constitution Better Political Revolution Sense Only Could Excess True Return Metaphor Times Mean
A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution. Jairam Ramesh
Power Country Become Revolution Later India Case Percent Feed Came Were Years Itself Green America Wheat Famous Cannot Produced Agricultural Basket
We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution. James Levine
Revolution Evolution Midst
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. Jean Genet
Man Ideology Revolution Interpretation Liberation Some Object Main Transcendental Application
Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development. Johann Most
Writing Revolution Every Anarchist More Point Development Accelerate Revolutionary Social Means Use Deed Prepare Speech
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